American reacts to German vs. American TikTok Compilation

[@АклызМелкенды]

As far as I know, in German people say "der 9. Oktober", so like "the 9th of October"

[@Notfallhamster]

Day then Month and finaly the Year.

[@tobiashuber8289]

I call that particular date "Geburtstag"

[@dieschachbrettfee2060]

@@Notfallhamster In Japan it's year, month, day

[@losarpettystrakos7687]

Americans say it the same way for at least one day in July. ;-)

[@AdamMPick]

Erster Mai. Elfter September. Dritter Oktober. It is an old rule, but in German you are supposed to use the word for numbers below 13 in normal text.

[@tehweh8202]

Yeah, in Germany, we write the date in a logical order, and then also say it in a logical order. Anything else would probably make us explode in a ball of rage.

[@insu_na]

Except numbers, we don't say those in logical order. Drei und Zwanzig / Dreiundzwanzig vs. Twenty Three. Or worse: Hundert Drei und Zwanzig / Hundertdreiundzwanzig vs. Hundred and Twenty Three

[@Morrobann]

@@insu_na Tbf Dreizwanzighundert würde sich schlecht anhören, ebenso Hundertzwanzigdrei.

[@insu_na]

@@Morrobann Nur weil wir es anders gewöhnt sind. Ich will's nicht ändern, aber man muss sich halt eingestehen, dass nicht alles was wir machen sinnvoller ist als die Angelsachsen ;)

[@olgahein4384]

@@insu_na Aber immer noch besser als die Franzosen (schwacher Trost, aber es hilft). 193 = hundert vier-mal-zwanzig drei-zehn

[@Bassalicious]

Correct. It has to be geordnet!

[@EmperorCaligula_EC]

I am no lawyer, but I am quite sure misleading with a price without taxes would be against the law here in Europe. That would NOT end well for the salesmen.

[@Michael_from_EU_Germany]

EU-wide, NON-EU Countries in Europe it could be different.

[@euryeuro6826]

Until very few years ago, flight prices were published exactly the same way.

[@fermitupoupon1754]

@@Michael_from_EU_Germany Applies to the entire EEA, not just the EU. Also applies to foreign stores selling to EU citizens under certain circumstances. The general rule is you can't advertise a price to a consumer without including all applicable taxes and levies. Imagine showing up to a petrol station seeing a litre of E10 being advertised for 88 cents, and then at the cash register you find out that there's also 70 cents worth of ecotax and another 21% of VAT over the total, bringing the cost of a litre up to 2 euro. Or worse with motorvehicles, a car being advertised for 20k euro, and then when you go to pay for it, add on another 42% in ecotax and another 21% VAT over the combined total. The only real exceptions are things like labour costs, import duties and shipping fees as those aren't always known up front.

[@jeansh7325]

Here in Germany, when the waiter smiles and introduces himself by his first name - as in America - we think he's had too much weed!

[@tigersilberhannes9153]

The obligation to pay the employee lies with the employer. Puting moral pressure on the customer to pay the employee is psychological harassment.

[@tigersilberhannes9153]

Oh and most german drinking games i know off are with dice.

[@theKiwii]

Now I'm also wondering if tips are taxed as well or if "paying" employees indirectly, by strongly suggesting an amount to tip, is functionally a form of tax evasion.

[@fermitupoupon1754]

@@theKiwii as far as I know, the employee does have to report the tips to the IRS. However as the restaurant itself is no party in that transaction, it doesn't count as income or profit for the restaurant, so they are bound to save a couple of bucks in taxes there. Personally I do not feel responsible for the fact that a waiter in the US gets paid something like 2.30 an hour. I'm not the one that negotiated their salary. But somehow in the eyes of the waiter I am responsible for fixing their problem.

[@erebostd]

Und nun fangen sie das bei uns auch an. Diverse Kartenzahlungs-Terminals bieten nun in Restaurants (und zum Beispiel auch Bäckereien) Prozentsätze an, die du als Trinkgeld geben kannst: 5-10-15-20!! - In einem Restaurant mit einer guten Bedienung sehe ich ja gerne mal ein, ein paar Euro extra zu zahlen, und bei größeren Abendessen mit mehreren Personen natürlich auch mehr - aber bei Bäckereien oder so? Um mir irgendwie zwei Brötchen über den Tresen zu reichen 15% Trinkgeld, bei den aktuell schon ziemlich unverschämten Preisen? Da hab ich dann kein schlechtes Gewissen auf die Null zu drücken….

[@klamin_original]

12:10 yes, in German we say the day first. The English „st“ „rd“ th“ as in 1st 3rd 4th are written with a point in German, so it would be „1.“ „3.“ and „4.“. And it’s pronounced with an added „te“ at the end, so „Erste“, „Dritte“ „Vierte“. The English „Fourth of October“ would translate to „Vierter Oktober“ or „the fourth of October“ to „Der vierte Oktober“. So yes we also say the day first but it’s kind of more convenient since we don’t have to put anything for „of“ between day and month. And there’s actually no German equivalent for the English „October 4th“, our grammar rules don’t allow that.

[@NeverMind439]

Better explanation that I could have ever done 😀

[@treasey8655]

... Oktober der vierte

[@MegaGimmler]

@@treasey8655 Igitt! Wer so spricht, frisst auch kleine Kinder.

[@Astro-Markus]

The current usage of dates in German simplified over time. Originally, it was (and it's still sometimes used) "Der Vierte im Oktober" (The fourth in October), which is the fourth day of October. Nowadays, we simply say "fourth October".

[@ralfschiller6356]

It is only the USA that put the month first, here in the UK the day is first.

[@Schwuuuuup]

Yes 9th Oktober. Why so confused you also celebrate Fourth of July

[@klamin_original]

In another video he said it’s so confusing Europeans refer to the US as America yet he calls himself and people from the US Americans all the time. I mean it’s not wrong but you can’t refer to your country on the one hand and claim you would never call it America since that’s the continents yet on the other hand call yourself like the continent and suddenly throw the national identity concept overboard

[@ayoutubechannelhasnoname6018]

Very solid points

[@AlexGys9]

Yeah, but remember, the Americans celebrate their Fourth of July on July the 4th 😀

[@Holzhirsch]

@@klamin_original Also, its constantly claimed to be confusing, that east germany does not include Baveria or its more like north east germany. Meanwhile the Mid West of USA is clearly in the east or max. in the center. definatly not in the west.

[@klamin_original]

@@Holzhirsch I‘m baffled how an American can forget that Bavaria was part of West Germany when it’s the area they controlled after WW2 and surely they know they never were in east germany apart from West Berlin

[@bdgza]

Paying service staff a proper wage instead of relying on tips is not just an “honest up front” thing like including sales tax. It is yet another way to move business risk from the employer to the employee. If business is slow the staff won’t get tips and won’t get paid enough for working their hours.

[@AV-we6wo]

And it creates quite a problem regarding income tax. In Germany, tips are not considered a taxable income, it usually is a tiny sum compared to the actual wages and considered as a 'personal gift' to your waiter. In the US however, tips have to be declared as income, because they are an important part of it. So the whole system works in a way that is an incentive for tax evasion. Most people are honest (I hope), but giving them an easy opportunity to cheat is never a good idea.

[@vrenak]

Most languages only say the dates in order, saying the month first isn't even an option without sounding like you're having a stroke or something.

[@Faeyeful]

As for the alcohol in public. My brain always tries to come up with the logic: You can carry a firearm in America in public. You don't want people drink and be drunk with a firearm in public. You could, you know, outlaw the firearms like normal people but naaaaah.

[@steffizorn1387]

Funniest drinking game I know is "Meiern". It's a simple game with two dices. Some call it "Mäxchen". You roll the dice face down under a dice cup and claim a value. The next player must believe or disbelieve the value. The next person has to roll a higher value, otherwise you lose. Therefore, there comes a point where you have to bluff and lie. If you don't believe and look under the cup and catch someone lying, the liar must drink. Or whatever the punishment is. But if he told the truth and you didn't believe it, you lost. Then the new round begins. Prost!

[@fabianschultz]

I know that as paradise

[@biancat.1873]

Lügenmäxchen

[@Ruchunteur]

It's funny how must drinking game have the drinking as "the punishment for losing" while it really is the goal to drink ahah

[@steffizorn1387]

@@Ruchunteur You have to play it with really nasty stuff. ^^

[@ChacUayabXoc]

I am German, but I also label my folders at work in the YYYYMMDD manner, because they get automatically alphabetically sorted by windows.

[@Gaehhn]

on computer I use YYYY.MM.DD, when speaking and on hand written notes/documents I use DD.MM.YYYY

[@kmsomebody]

YYYY-MM-DD is actually the official date format in Germany since 1996, but no one uses it. Not even official documents do. :D

[@DaGuys470]

This is the only situation where this makes sense. I do this too

[@Jedimeister17]

But it is still in a descending state order, so no confusion is created. It might get a bit trickier if you only use 2 digits for year

[@Ausecko1]

YYYYMMDD is the ISO standard, but only widely used in Japan, innit?

[@arleccio]

You get publicly shamed for not tipping or not not tipping enough. You already know that your tip is the waiters wages. The people actually earning money at places like oluve garden kniw you know that. You're the only one in a moral dilemma. It takes a bit to ignore the bad feeling of not playing their game. The waiters should unionize. Unless you're depending on tips their wages aren't your problem. I think it's funny that many Americans still use the different taxes in different places to explain why they can't be added to price before you pay. The cash register knows what to add. There's no one sitting in the back office calculating the price with taxes while they get scanned at the cash register. No one calculated the prices before labelling all the shelves and products. The computer spits that out like he was made to compute shit. It's like the IRS knows exactly what you owe. They're not afraid to tell you if you happen to miscalculate. But they still make you calculate yourself. You're being legally financially scammed almost everywhere. People complain but no one is trying to change any of this. It's like you're allergic to clarity.

[@MiKaNi_089]

German drinking games: try Sissi-Dinking All you need are the old "Sissi" movies with Romy Schneider about Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary, and LOT of prepared shots! Sissi drinking is very easy. Once you've made yourselves comfortable on the sofa and the nibbles and alcohol are ready for everyone, it's time to get started. Every time the word "Majesty" is mentioned in the film, everyone stands up and shouts "Long live the Empress". You drink a shot at the same time. You'll be completely drunk in no time! Your liver will be shouting Rufby songs kind of drunk

[@itsmebatman]

The date thing is strange. Americans say the day first in some occasions, like 4th of July. But then they argue like their live depends on it, that dates should be written month/day. Make up your god damn minds! Also the sales tax thing is crazy, mostly because how stubbornly Americans try to defend the practice. I've been told in all seriousness that it is because of counties having different taxes. As if the store I'm standing in would change county mid purchase. This makes no sense at all.

[@AtomTomZeitalter]

And that argument doesn't even make sense - In germany, there are two possible sales taxes: 7% for stuff that's essential and 19% for everythng else. If you get something "to go" in a Fast Food restaurant, that's a sales tax of 7%, because you only get the food and food is essential for survival. If you eat in the restaurant, that's a sales tax of 19%, because you are getting the extra service of sitting there. So we have two different sales taxes both with the same price. The restaurant has different profit margins, depending on how you order your food. Just do the same in the states.

[@BennoWitter]

I like that they have playing the "Harry Lime Theme" from "The Third Man" in every clip.

[@APCLZ]

they're "creative"

[@Matzeking-x6z]

We do infact say 9th october

[@steemlenn8797]

In Berlin it's required for waiters to NOT smile to get tips. If you smile, people will asume you are under drugs.

[@xYonowaaru]

That doesn't make sense. If you're in Berlin it's assumed you're on drugs by default.

[@JED-v8q]

Yes, additionally you have to be rude and yell at the customers or they will think they are being scammed

[@rustknuckleirongut8107]

I wish I had enough drugs to be under them

[@Nudnik88]

Why only with the date? 10th floor, 2nd car, 3rd try, etc. But then October 10th? Wtf? Love your channel. Greetings from Austria.❤

[@LokmanSalikoon]

It messes us up especially when numbers are only used in the date format. For example, if there's a new TV show premiering on 6/11, sometimes we get confused if its june 11 or 6th Nov.

[@Gaston413]

Even as a German, I had to laugh so hard at the German tantrum over the sales tax.

[@bastiwen]

In a lot of languages you can't even say MM/DD/YY, it wouldn't make sense. If in French I said "juin 27" or "juin le 27" instead of "le 27 juin" people would think I was having a stroke.

[@mori1bund]

Imagine you write the time 11:42:17 with 17 are the minutes and 42 are the seconds 😂😂🤣

[@hodorba5567]

imagine clicking on 11:42:17 to visit that timestamp in the video, i think its time for me to go to bed

[@EyMannMachHin]

The "funniest" example of the date issue I had when being in the US with the German Bundeswehr. We were there for 8 weeks from June to August. And luckily me and a lot of my comrades did turn 21 that year. So Im born on Jan 11th, but the German ID card says 11.01.YYYY. Imagine all the fun arguing with bouncers at clubs that we write the dates the other way. At least it was very clear why we had to get a US driving license, so we had an official US paper stating the "correct" age. It only took 3-4 weeks before we got them in our hands.

[@jannik323]

first pronunciation was right . I am also a jannik, very cool name indeed. (it's a male name, at least I haven't seen it used as a female one)

[@sophiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie]

I‘m the female form 😂 (Name‘s Jannika)

[@lavieestduresansconfiture3912]

It's a breton name. Yann/Jean/Hans or Johann and the diminutive form is Yannick/petit Jean or Jeannot/Hänschen or kleiner Johann. Jannik may be common in Germany but in realter it 's not written correctly.

[@Mokuu8]

Wow i didnt know that. Thats very interesting. I also didnt know there´s a female version of this name ( mines Yannick)

[@theKiwii]

@@lavieestduresansconfiture3912 Who or what determines which spelling variants of a name are correct or "incorrect" if not common usage?

[@lavieestduresansconfiture3912]

@@theKiwii If, in another country, the name John is spelled Dschonn or Jacob Dchääkop, Liza Leisa, Elisabeth Älissebess would you consider it's written in a non correct way? The Hype with Yannick began with the french tennisplayer Yannick Noah with y and ck in the eighties. And after a while the spelling changed. Now the "german" version has replaced the breton one at least in the german speaking countries. I'm french and german living in Italy.

[@MrsStrawhatberry]

It's not just in Germany, most countries do it the other way dd/mm/yyyyy, even English speaking countries. It's like the imperial system and the am/pm thing. You are pretty much alone with that.

[@theKiwii]

Yeah and some Asian countries including Japan do it in the most correct way: year month day (descending order). That is also the order in the international standard (ISO 8601): YYYY-MM-DD. Descending order naturally sorts correctly in electronic systems like file names.

[@MrsStrawhatberry]

@@theKiwii Both are logic, the American way however doesn’t make any sense.

[@ela83a]

In Sweden the VAT for an item like a mug is 25%

[@acevivendi]

We have a card game called asshole 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@stechuskaktus8318]

Kid: What game are you playing? My aunts: "Ass" Kid: Do you know another game? My aunts: Yes, "Manure" Kid: BS

[@ryanwass]

so do we!!

[@zoefezius6615]

Standard drinking game i know is watching a movie or sports Event and everytime something predefined happens, you drink. Classical with Sisi Movie, drink everytime they say Sisi. Or soccer games, choose a Player and everytime the reporter calls his name you drink.

[@andreasfischer9158]

It is even more confusing in Sweden. Each municipality specifies the area where you are not allowed to consume alcoholic beverages in public. We had some chaps that always had a couple of beers on a bench in front of the police station because that side of the street was just outside this area. Tourists are not likely to be shot right away, police will first explain the rules.

[@heha6984]

October 10th = Zehnter Oktober. And yes, from small to big: 10. Oktober 2024. LG

[@danielrodel1334]

Drinking Game List: 1. Drinking Games with Cards: Mäxchen, Busfahren, Pferderennen, Kings Cup, Higher or Lower, (Arschloch, Schafkopf) 2. Drinking Games with Balls Flunkyball/Bierball (Beerball) 3. Drinking Games with Cups Bier Pong, Titty-Pong, Flip Cup, Rage Cage 4. Further Drinking Games True American, (Trichtern und Weizenspringen), Never have i ever ..., Who would most likely ... And many more

[@trollnystan]

In Swedish we say "nionde oktober" which means "ninth of October". I suppose some people might say "oktober nio" ("October nine") but that's not the standard.

[@dennisziegler9564]

my friend once got drunk and blacked out. he later met someone who told him they also met that night and my friend asked him "did you see my house? it's 5 meters tall, white and went that way". that were our drinking games when i was younger. 😅

[@common1529]

In Polish we say first a day, then a month, and I'm quite sure that's how they say it in all Slavic countries

[@cn8412]

02:44 Regarding the tipping, it's not about false pricing, as such. It's more about the idea that your livelihood shouldn't depend on whether you are having a good or a bad week. Even good waiters have bad days, but it should only be consequential if you suck in general.

[@porky1118]

4:30 In Germany we tip, too. But we aren't pedantic about it. Usually round up to the next value devisible by 5 or 10, also depending on the price. If it's 49€, you'd probably round up to 55 or 60 instead of 50.

[@BunterAlltag]

Yeah, instead of saying "der 9. Oktober 2024" ("the 9th [of] October 2024) you could also say just the numbers. E. g. "es ist der 09.10.2024", which literally is "it's the 9th 10th 2024".

[@Luzianos]

In German we actually have 365 months but a lot of them have the same name so we group them up and then count them in ascending order

[@j.d.l._666]

12:21 Well, all people I know (I'm from Germany) say first of june or 01.06. So.. We acutally say it the way we write it.

[@kuldan5853]

Yes German puts the day before the month in speech. "Am 9. Oktober" "Der 4. Juli" and so forth.

[@Mokrator]

yess the brown paperbag you see in movies - i also thought its makin it even more obvious... How about dringing a a 0% beer in public - you can not tell the difference unless you use a paper bag to cover the 5% one. working with databases - if i input a date-string it's highly dependend on the selected language how it gets interpreted to a date... therefore i like to use yyyy-MM-dd HH:ii:ss as format and well never use auto-converting text to date as that regulary fails. There are even situations where until the 12th of a month it thinkgs of Dec 5th and on 13th its suddenly May 13th - aarg.

[@Monayla]

I am a 42 y old german and gotta say: in contrast to the comment section, i had a lot of smiling waiters in my life and feel like thats how it should be. not smiling like a crazy joker, just a little smile. and oviously it should not feel forced.. aaand last but not least: i am smiling when the waiter first comes to the table and we exchange "hellos" . the comments here really confused me. i never thought so many ppl have an issue with smiling. blows my mind.

[@ThePunikaTV]

Of course we say the day of the date first too. Most of the times the day is the more important information you need to convey, I barely even mention the month after the day.

[@gregchezick7757]

Holy shit, someone actually gets what sales tax is, this is the first time I have seen someone get what is going on from the internet.

[@mulraf]

I know it sounds like a trivial problem but the fact that the date is written in different patterns definitely can cause problems when programming stuff etc. US is the outlier i think with that system, but some countries ( i think predominantly asia?) has year -> month -> day. so basically the reverse. so you have to be mindfull of all of that including different seperators like dd.mm.yyyy vs mm/dd/yyyy vs yyyy-mm-dd, etc. It's really annoying. I mean of course there are functions that help you with that stuff but it can still trip you up.

[@wearenotdoinggethelp1077]

In Germany we also have a minimum wage of 13.44$ (as far as I kow, this applies to EVERY legal worker over the age of 18) whereas in the US it's about 7$ I think. That also might exlain the tipping...

[@weorldedit]

What actually happens when you go to the doctor in Germany: "So here we have your test results, we have no idea what you have, but we will perscribe you some pills anyways" "So these pills will help me?" "Probably not, but you will pay 5 Euros for them at the pharmacy and the German taxpayer will pay 200 Euros for them. If you dont feel better in 2 weeks and you happen to be still alive, come see me again, so I can perscribe you some different pills."

[@WSandig]

Yes, in German we say "zehnter Oktober", which literally translates to "tenth october", and I think that's also what Brits say. However, while everyone talks about how much more sense this makes in German, no one seems to notice that we say "five and twenty" instead of "twenty five", which is even more confusing than month/day/year. so tomorrow will be the one and twenty June twenty four and twenty. ok, that's not as weird as the french calling 97 "four twenty ten seven" (quatre-vingt-dix-sept), but still.

[@PotsdamSenior]

But in English it's "six-teen" or "eight-teen" too. Why do they change the system once they get to 20?

[@WSandig]

@@PotsdamSenior I wish I'd know

[@houserhythm]

In terms of cataloging items Y/M/D makes most sense. But in terms of speech D/M/Y is most logical, cause the day is most relevant, the most frequently changing. In either case, saying the month first makes no sense to anyone but Americans. Also here in Romania, the ER is free even for people who aren't insured (there are some). You can't let someone die because they have no money to pay - it's both inhumane and against the hippocratic oath. And no, you can't trick the system by never paying and always just going to the ER, they won't treat you unless it's actually an emergency.

[@Jeni10]

Yannick Noah is a French former pro tennis player. Yannick Bisson is the Canadian actor who plays William Murdoch in Murdoch Mysteries, currently in its 17th season.

[@sabeytimtam3103]

The first Drinking Games that come into my mind are "Äpplermaster" (Äppler or Ebbelwoi is Applewine from Hesse and is served in a "Bembel". I think there are other names for the same game in Germany, but i can't recall. Maybe someone else from Germany can help me out here?!), "Busfahrer", "Könige", "Mäxchen" and my alltime favourite "FLUNKY BALL" :D Oh, almost forgot the pokemon drinking board game - I think we downloaded it from reddit? ^^

[@shadowfox009x]

Regarding the no alcohol in public. What about non-alcoholic beer? I mean, the bottles are impossible to tell apart unless you look at the label. At least it's that way in Germany.

[@kfusei]

He's right things have to be in order, that's like saying one hundred four and twenty … wait a minute.

[@fabianjuttner6837]

A common card game for drinking in my region is ,,Busfahren‘‘ (Bus driving).

[@paulinachlastakova1620]

Of course we say 1st Oktober etc. We read it as we write it.

[@hueftschnupfen]

We don't play with alcohol, we just drink😁

[@stormrider01]

Yes we say 9th October. In UK and USA as a tourist I also would say 9th October 😂 Because I think to say October the 9th is like saying a name: Hello, I am October the 9th 😂

[@-gemberkoekje-5547]

I always thought those bags were for ice to keep the beverage cold. Because Americans love ice.

[@brillitheworldbuilder]

Yup. In Germany, the sales tax is ALWAYS included in the price and shown on price tags. It may also be mandatory by law, but I don't exactly know if that's true. Can anybody confirm if this is mandatory here in Germany?

[@Michael_from_EU_Germany]

Yes, it is. EU-wide!

[@sandrap.3399]

yes, we do say 9th October.

[@MarieLuiseOrland]

yes we really speak and write DD.MM.YYYY. But for file and directory names on a PC we go mostly for YYYYMMDD because it's easier to sort. But never would we use MM/DD/YYYY that really doesn't make any sense. For every day below 13 we would questioning is it the month or the day?

[@k4ndypaint]

this "battle" between to powerhouses is pretty cool i wish we could straight learn more from eachother

[@fomasfcs]

Sometimes we Germans say, say for January the 5th: "The 5th, 1st"

[@Mokuu8]

wow that was fast, thank you for reacting :D also its a male name as fas as i know with different spellings Edit: Found the female version of this name in the comments :D

[@chrisrudolf9839]

When it comes to saying numbers in the order that makes sense, we Germans are sitting in the proverbial glasshouse in which not to throw stones. Yes, almost all the world is puzzled and amused by the way the US puts dates, but we Germans zig-zag through our numbers when pronouncing them, which makes absolutely no sense when you think about it and which does make it harder when you have to write down numbers someone tells you, because you hear the ones digit before the tens digit. E.g. 234 in German would be pronounced zweihundertvierunddreißig, which is "two hundred four and thirty".

[@sadb]

Americans say October 9th and in this manner for ALL days expect 4th of July which you do use the European system

[@Duconi]

Yes, we say dates in the order we write them. So 9. Oktober = 9th (of) October. But we reverse the tens digit. So 142 (one-hundred-fourty-two), we say "Einhundertzweiundvierzig", which is "one-hundred-two-fourty" in englisch.

[@gabsrants]

7:28 - ok, that one made me laugh

[@KniKnaKnorke]

Health care covered by all people in a country includeds some disadvantages. In germany lot of people visit the hospitol for minor thing's. They forgot and dont care what the costs are. This caues high cost for the health insurance. Therefore the montly payment increase for everyone. In germany you got also private health insurance, so you are excluded to pay the health needs for all the other people in the country. I like the private system. you get a lot of money back if you dont go to the doctor or pay the bill out of your pocket. In a social democracy like germany you need something between. Everyone has to be covered by health insurance. However people must realize what the costs are to vist a doctor or a hospital.

[@Jeni10]

Yes, in Australia too, we write the date as we say it. We say the fifth of August, 2024, but you say August fifth, 2024.

[@voyance4elle]

I wished Uyen Ninh made a compilation of all of her amazing TikToks! I sent you so many of them but I guess a compilation like this is much more convenient...

[@tobyk.4911]

12:20 In German we always say the day before the month, e.g. "neunter Oktober" (= ninth (of) October). The only time we would _maybe_ say something like "October ninth" - is when we speak American English.

[@theredingenieur8036]

when will be the 100k subs special? :D

[@DanielKjeldal]

Not including the tax in the price seems like a caveat emptor situation to me, which America has legislation against so I don't get why this is somehow legal. It certainly is illegal here in Iceland, we even have a law that states that ANYTHING for sale that is displayed in a front window of a store must have an easily legible price marker so that people can come to conclusions about the price levels of the store before entering.

[@rustknuckleirongut8107]

Saying the date with month first is about as logical as saying the time with the minutes first. Lets meet up at 30:18 for some dinner guys.

[@VK1602-vk]

Yes we use DD MM YYYY, my desktop clock says Do, 20. Juni 2024 13:32

[@donchillow527]

With adding it afterwards and showing you only the price without the tax, they make you feel that the customer has to pay the tax and not the company on its income ... you have to pay more "cause of that bad government that is after your money".

[@2kReels]

The only drinking card game I know is called "Kartenpusten" where you put a deck of cards on a short glass, and one after another now must blow at least one card from the deck. If you happen to blow and no cards are left, lying on the schnaps glas, you got to take this shot. It's very fun, because you can deliberately blow off more than one card, in order to make it harder for the person after you, but this can ultimately backfire if you happen to blow off all cards... This game killed me on more than one occasion...

[@DanielAusMV-op9mi]

My dear American friends, I want you to know that I think you loose out on much cash because other people feel scammed/betrayed about the taxes not included in the price thing. Maybe you want to consider if you want to make it a unified thing that every state has to include taxes in the price. I wish you Ryan and all the other people all the best, and greetings from Germany, we are very proud and wish you many great things ❤❤❤

[@MellonVegan]

3:52 Only if the wages are actually a meaningful expense for the business. McD has MUCH higher salaries in the EU, especially Denmark, while a Big Mac costs either the same or maybe 3% more (depending on the country). People always act as if the biggest expense in sales, gastronomy and the like were labour. It is not.

[@theKiwii]

Yeah, companies will optimize their profit margins but the people who say everything would be more expensive forget that companies can only charge as much as customers are willing to pay. And they won't charge less than that just because they could; they'll always try to find the point where price times sales is highest.

[@frecklejack475]

Love your videos Ryan! Is there a way to contact you somehow, to recommend good videos from time to time? Greets from Austria

[@StrongKickMan]

We say it like 9th of October. Month, day, year is just wrong.

[@thorstenkurafeiski1845]

Comming up with a drinking game to getting drunk is a common thing shared with a lot of countries I guess.

[@oleksandrbyelyenko435]

12:24 tell me what date is the American Independence Day? 4th of July, right? I have never heard any American say July the 4th when they talk about the Independence day. But all other days you put months first

[@ArmandoBellagio]

On my recent trip to the US, I went to Miami Beach and had a "Hard Iced Tea" which has 5 % alcohol. I also didn't think about it and wanted to drink it outside, but the woman in the shop said "no, no, put it in this brown paper bag". So it somehow makes it legal then, even though it's pretty obvious... I drank it fast and no police stopped me.

[@lillgp]

Replacing bones with tungsten sounds really bad. First result on google from reddit someone had estimated 15 liters of bones in an adult which would weigh around 290kg. 3,96 gallons and 639 lbs in american

[@Warentester]

There are two logical ways to state dates: DD/MM/YYYY or YYYY/MM/DD. So either smallest to largest or largest to smallest. Whennwriting dates in filenames the latter is most sensible (as alphabetical sorting leads to chronological sorting). In everyday language it doesn't matter. But i would NEVER write MM/DD/YYYY. It just doesn't make sense.

[@frankishempire2322]

OH, but the price really means something. It is called "the base"....

[@Talorifeyden]

how often am i running into date format problems when it comes to data transfer between applications and databases.. it starts with the order US vs EU.. other funny things are calender weeks (cw1 first complete week in a year vs first week no matter which day vs first week that got a wednesday in it) or when does a week start (sunday vs monday). and from IT perspective i prefer dates in descending order: yyyy-mm-dd :D ...wait.. / or - or . as seperator?!?

[@kathilisi3019]

Ryan, have you done a reaction to "Barbara's Rhabarberbar" yet??

[@Michael_from_EU_Germany]

Es gibt für jeden Kanal eine Suchfunktion There is a search function for each channel

[@uwesauter2610]

If the German bakery sells its pretzels to take away, the price includes the reduced VAT rate of 7 percent. However, if the pretzel is served, the price includes 19 percent VAT. The final price is still the same.

[@Ashuowl]

The month/day/year is pretty much exclusive to United States, much like the imperial system. The large majority of the world uses day/month/year

[@ulliulli]

12:10 yes, today it's the "Zwanzigste Sechste Zwanzig Vierundzwanzig" (Twientieth Sixth twenty twenty four).

[@Lisa-xn9xc]

The date issue really is one, because you really could mix up the date. Just imagine buying tickets for a concert, bokking a trip to the USA, paying the hotel and everything - just to find out that you got the wrong date.

[@beldin2987]

We really say "der neunte Oktober" whichs means "the ninth of october". Btw. i nower there is also one special day in the US where you do the same like saying "first of july" or something like that (don't really remember what it was exactly)

[@snafusmurf7350]

Our order of days and months is as in „papa was a rolling stone“

[@Durin01]

@ryan do you guys say the 4th of July?

[@ChristianKeitel]

Ich glaube, TikTok gehört nicht zu unseren größten Stärken. Manchmal ist es wirklich unangenehm.😂

[@levoGAMES]

Maybe I'm the crazy one here, but if I go to a different country, it's not that hard to accept that things are done/said/written differently. Somehow it gets people all upset ^^